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Screenshot Captor / Re: Access violation error every morning

« Last post by Ath on June 12, 2012, 05:24 AM »

can anyone else confirm that this is true for them too?

-mouser (June 12, 2012, 03:52 AM)

+1 here.
I leave my work-PC on over-night, and just turn off the 2 Display-Port connected monitors. They seem to reset the display settings quite rigorously, because any window left open when turning off the monitors is resized to something like 640x480, and into the primary monitor's left-top position.
I tested with Selected region this morning, and it error-ed out. After clicking away the messages, it worked fine in selecting and making the screenshot.
I'll test again tomorrow, creating a full-screen screenshot and then try Selected region, got too many windows open now that I don't want to fix resizing on (can't close 'm either), to turn off the monitors right now

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Developer's Corner / Re: Essays on Proper Storage of Site Passwords

« Last post by Ath on June 12, 2012, 02:31 AM »

+1 a very good read!

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Finished Programs / Re: Done: AMDER: Actor Missing Dialogue Error Report release: v1.2.3.0

« Last post by Ath on June 11, 2012, 05:26 PM »

AMDER was updated to version 1.2.3.0. Relaxed the parsing of page numbers for 'missing dialogue' and '(song)' entries to be either just numeric, or prefixed by p, pg, pgn, pgo, pgno, pn, pno or po.

Download available from the first post in this thread.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on June 11, 2012, 02:13 AM »

And a relatively new member, living up to his own number: 62

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... what version of .net a program is using

« Last post by Ath on June 07, 2012, 01:50 PM »

A quick search found me this geeks-with-blogs answer
But this stack-overflow thread and this one have more and clearer information, IMHO

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General Software Discussion / Re: scan and seperate

« Last post by Ath on June 05, 2012, 05:52 AM »

ScreenShotCaptor does have a nice Scanner option, you just have to enable it from preferences, and probably set some options to your likings.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dual boot FreeDOS with WinXP already installed !

« Last post by Ath on June 04, 2012, 04:38 AM »

The FreeDos Wiki page^w does give a few hints, and yes, you'd have to edit boot.ini

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General Software Discussion / Re: which programming language is most powerful in automating/interacting with MS Wi

« Last post by Ath on June 04, 2012, 02:22 AM »

I'd go for AutoIt (my personal preference) or AHK (select the AHK_L variant), PowerShell is more a "cmd.exe on steroids" kinda tool, not so easy in interacting with 'foreign' UI controls, while AutoIt and AHK are actually specialized in that.
VB and C# do offer ways to interact with 'foreign' controls, but not quite as easy and seamless as AutoIt or AHK.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the DC verdict for this Encryption Software if used for USB drives

« Last post by Ath on June 03, 2012, 12:12 PM »

As an alternative for Protect Folder I'd go for TrueCrypt, tried, proven and free (donations are accepted )

Dunno what that has to do with defending against keyloggers, but both have nothing to offer in that area. A keylogger does just that, log the keys you type at the keyboard, effectively capturing any information you add to any document or application you use... (including passwords etc.) Storing that information on an encrypted drive doesn't stop the keylogger, as it has already caught the information it wants.

Some of the Encrypted Drive/Folder software tools come with an embedded reader, so the folder can be mounted without fully installing the software, kinda like a portable 'install'.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on June 02, 2012, 04:25 AM »

And now Contro managed to drop his 700th post here:

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Living Room / Re: Just Had a Baby Girl~!

« Last post by Ath on June 01, 2012, 02:45 PM »

Congrats

"Been there, done that" Just brought my daughter to her prom tonight, so I kinda know what you can expect...

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on June 01, 2012, 02:41 PM »

So, what's a little fakery among friends, as long as the facts are on? 

-Edvard (June 01, 2012, 01:50 PM)

Always in for a good laugh

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General Software Discussion / Re: parse pdf file to pdf viewer via cmd

« Last post by Ath on June 01, 2012, 09:08 AM »

does anyone know if xpdf can open a pdf file with something like C:> xpdf afile.pdf ?

-kalos (June 01, 2012, 06:43 AM)

How dangerous could it be to simply try that?

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on May 30, 2012, 05:20 AM »

^ mouser and josh :-)
 (see attachment in previous post)
from Preparing for the inevitable

-tomos (May 30, 2012, 04:40 AM)

Great you caught him red-handed, tomos

Congrats to mouser for half a life invested into DC

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General Software Discussion / Re: Disk write cache (Windows XP)

« Last post by Ath on May 27, 2012, 04:29 PM »

And getting a battery backed power source helps even better

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General Software Discussion / Re: client side efficiency increase

« Last post by Ath on May 24, 2012, 01:14 AM »

Yes: pay/donate more money so the site-owner can buy more/better hardware, and get better software.
else
No.

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General Software Discussion / Re: EXCEL - ACCESS hybrid without limitations

« Last post by Ath on May 22, 2012, 05:52 AM »

but unfortunately it has some bad limitations

-kalos (May 22, 2012, 05:30 AM)

Hm, I've seen this video, but unfortunately my car also has some limitations. Maybe that'll be fixed if I'd buy a newer model?

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General Software Discussion / Re: EXCEL - ACCESS hybrid without limitations

« Last post by Ath on May 22, 2012, 05:21 AM »

What do you need this application to do?

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Point Motivator / Re: Suggestions

« Last post by Ath on May 20, 2012, 04:29 AM »

There is any possibility to accept the letter ñ in the xml files ?
 

-Contro (May 19, 2012, 05:45 PM)

It depends on the xml parser used, but this list is rather complete, and defines that you should use ñ (including both the & and ; characters)

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General Software Discussion / Re: powerful undo

« Last post by Ath on May 18, 2012, 12:02 PM »

any??

-kalos (May 18, 2012, 11:56 AM)

What vlastimil said is probably the most reliable and usable option. Have you tried that already?

Restoring closed windows is handled by one of Skrommel's snacks, GoneIn60s, afaik.

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General Software Discussion / Re: group lines

« Last post by Ath on May 18, 2012, 07:43 AM »

Maybe this editor fits your needs? http://tibleiz.net/code-browser/

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General Software Discussion / Re: group lines

« Last post by Ath on May 18, 2012, 07:39 AM »

Usually only programmer editors and IDE's have that feature, usually termed as 'Fold' or 'Collapse'. And generic editors enable it only on known sourcecode types, like .c, .cs, .java, .ahk, etc. where the structure of the content is known, and can actually be collapsed in useful chunks. Scite does a nice job, even folding comments, but not for text. Most likely other programmers editors do allow/support that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Trello - Project / Todo Management

« Last post by Ath on May 18, 2012, 04:52 AM »

Looking good, but after using Jira for a couple of years, I'd say it's a bit too simple for our (business)needs.

For DC-collaboration projects it would be very useful, I'd say . I'll try it for the next project I'll be doing here

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by Ath on May 17, 2012, 11:10 AM »

The MS ribbon is hardly narrow; it takes up a practically a third of the screen.

-longrun (May 16, 2012, 11:34 PM)

You have tried the standard Ribbon-minimize/hide feature? Double-clicking one of the tabs enables/disables that state.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Parameters Control Diary

« Last post by Ath on May 17, 2012, 09:30 AM »

All these options and parameters are in the (probably REALSQL) database 'C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Optimism\Optimism.rsd', AFAICS.
The "Custom..." buttons at the top of each screen-section brings up an edit screen where you can change the texts etc...

Just some work to set up a different set of questions, or a different language